Samsung Galaxy S III Review (AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Sprint)

0.phoneArenaposted on19 Jun 2012, 23:01

As we’ve seen last year with the Samsung Galaxy S II, it made its way to the US market many months after its initial unveiling – and to top it off, each specific carrier version was different in their own way. So yeah, call it confusion to the max or something else entirely. Thankfully, Samsung’s approach this year with its highly anticipated successor, the uniformly named Samsung Galaxy S III, is more rampant and timely with minimal wait...

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On the CPU side, the Exynos is still king, though the spread isnt as wide. On the GPU side it murders both the T3 and S4 and does the dirty dance with the powerVR.
As far as battery goes, the exynos will more than likely outperform the S4 as its made with better tech, and like I mentioned down below, when put to task, 4 cores running at 50% draw less power than 2 cores running at 100%. Also multi threading and such are easier with more cores producing less strain which = better battery life.

I was hoping the extra ram would even out the scores a bit but it didnt. I was gonna just break down and get the US version but now I'm not so sure. Especially when I've seen the international for only 525 compared to the US's 600+ (since its brand new here).

WOW the exynos does not have better battery life and Engadget already show that. With LTE on, the US SGS3 got more battery life then then international with only HSPA plus. The 4 cores on the exynos is at 32 nm vs the 2 28 nm.
And no more RAM will not increase benchmark Score for someone who act like he know what he talking about, that is pretty dumb to mistake.

Let me ask the so call a question?
How you ever developed any software?
Are you a computer program?
How you design or help design a chipset/CPU?
Are you a computer program?
Do you first hand experience with both the CPU and developed software for android?
If you answer No to all of this, then how do you know that the Exynos is so much better then all the other chip?
Unlike you I don't know which one is the best, and I just look at score and compare them. It is funny because in theVerge review their international SGS3 with Antutu and it did worst then the T3. And the antutu test the CPU, GPU, Ram and SD speed.
So if the T3 has a worst GPU then the exynos, that mean it make it up in the CPU. Please explain then how do the CPU of the exynos being king?

yes
yes, just not actively anymore.
no, but my close friends father does so I've seen chip design first hand and asked questions as well as read dozens of articles on the subject.
yes... you already asked this.
no but I can read and I've read dozens of articles on the subject

1) there are a dozen different reasons, especially since thats the first test that ive seen that happen on.
A) amount of apps running in the background
b) memory usage, memory ghosting from previous apps
c) and more.

2) I no longer program.. its kinda boring typing in boolyan strings all day at a computer day in and day out. I prefer playing with machines to making them work.

3) why do I work at a part time job that has full benefits for me and my family while i go to school full time for medicine? hmm.. oh.. i think i just answered that. Oh, yea, and I have an electronics addiction, if u cant tell.

any more invasive questions you want to ask like a petulant ass? why do you do what YOU do for a living ?? hmm? Why does taco still live with mommy?? Why Didnt Sniggly punch balmer during the Windows 8 announcement??
WHY WHY WHY!?

the higher amount of RAM would have certainly changed the benchmark scores if the S4 actually took advantage of it's dual-channel memory support having 2GB of memory. i was afraid when Samsung announced the change that dual-channeling was gonna be out of the window and i'm pretty sure i'm right here. it would explain why the One X and One S beats the US SIII in most benchmarks most notably in Antutu, a test i know that tests memory. as far as battery life is concerned i think there's something up with the S4 that allows it to have generally more efficient power consumption when it's using a cellular network but on Wi-Fi the T3 (don't forget our low-power companion core pal) and the 4412 beat it.

Still, the tests didnt say they were running data the whole time, it just says "battery life". Show me the test where they do the data pull from 100% to dead and tell me how the tests ends up. Just being "LTE" or "HSPA+" isnt the difference, tis USING it. :) Some peeps just dont get that.

well it's pretty safe to say that's where the S4 would draw a lead from because i agree that splitting the voltage between 4 32nm cores should generally be more efficient than splitting it between 2 28nm cores.

if you're on unlimited data get the S3 now because you literally only have a week to be able to use your upgrades before you have to start changing your plan when you do. you can always choose to trade your SIII for an HD later if you'd like.

What's up with Samsung not integrating LTE into their Exynos chips yet??!!! LTE has been out for 3+ years already. Time to get on that Sammy! You gonna keep making 3G chips forever? Also, according to the benchmark, the phone only has 1.5 gigs of RAM, not 2. False advertising anyone?

Anyhow, I'd rather the extra battery life in the S4 w/LTE than the Quad Core without. Imagine if the quad-core had LTE? That thing would last for 2 hours and be dead, lol. Battery life is everything. It's much more important than having an overkill quad core. The S4 is still plenty powerful for what you're gonna need it for.

The review also didn't mention anything about the 2 years of dropbox on certain carriers and the internal storage differences available. Imo, Phone Arenas reviews SUCK! They hardly mention most of the features of the phone in detail. They should use these features and write about them, all of them, not just mention a few of the big ones. This IS a review afterall. So review the damn phone in its' entirety. (This is a general comment about their reviews, not just the GS3 in particular)

your such a troll. lets keep a runnin average of the tests as they come out? have a little fun.

for someone that admits they know jack crap about this stuff, you sure to spend a lot of time trying to troll me and prove me wrong. too bad it doesnt work out for you so well. stop taking advice from taco.. lol

show me the test that proves it. :)
they used to do battery drain tests from downloading things. where are those at? maybe its because we dont get unlimited data anymore from carriers they stopped doing them.. lolol

im really and very VERY tempted to just forget my lumia 900 and go for this or even the one X. Darn you mobile world, you can never satisfy the consumer! lol.. microsoft better prove tommorow to why i should stay with them! haha

Soooo... uh, I couldn't help but notice that "no LTE network to run on" wasn't listed as a con, and considering that this review includes the Sprint version, you'd think it would... because, y'know, it was listed as a con on the Evo 4G LTE... which I can only assume is why the Evo got rated the same as the AT&T One X instead of higher, considering it had added features like an SD slot and camera button, but with a slower network... I'll um... I'll be quiet and let the people who actually know what they're doing run the show now...

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